Table Of ContentMusic Education
The future is a funny thing. Everyone would like to know it. But, no one
can. We can only deal with the present based on our knowledge of the
past and the projection of our vision of the future. We know that at this
point in the first part of the 21st Century information and technology are
driving the pace of change and discovery at an unprecedented rate. This
knowledge should affect the way that we as humans interact with the
world including how we engage with music, and more importantly the
teaching and learning of it. Music Education: Navigating the Future is
written by both (1) authors who were at the time of this publication
ambitious early career professors trying to earn tenure and receive promo-
tion, and (2) veteran scholars and researchers who have paved the way
for the present generation of leaders in music education. Through their
combined efforts the authors were able to well articulate what the profes-
sion now needs as it moves forward. The end result—the coming together
of past, present, and future—is a work that will be held in high regard by
the profession for years to come. Music Education features chapters on
music and leisure, new forms of media in music teaching and learning, the
role of technology in music learning, popular music tuition in the expan-
sion of curricular offerings, and the assessment of music education research.
As such, it is an excellent reference for scholars and teachers as well as a
guide to the future of the discipline.
Clint Randles is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of
South Florida, USA.
Routledge Studies in Music Education
1 Music Education
Navigating the Future
Edited by Clint Randles
Music Education
Navigating the Future
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Music education : navigating the future / edited by Clint Randles.
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1. Music—Instruction and study. I. Randles, Clint, 1978–
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This book is dedicated to Bennett Reimer. Thank you, Professor
Reimer, for enriching our lives with your work in music and
words. Music education is better off as a result of your efforts.
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
PART I
Working Within the Domain
History
1 Music Education History and the Future 3
MICHAEL L. MARK
Perspective
2 In Response to Michael Mark 13
BENNETT REIMER
Philosophy
3 Difference and Music Education 16
LAUREN KAPALKA RICHERME
4 A Proleptic Perspective of Music Education 29
BRENT C. TALBOT
Perspective
5 The Virtues of Philosophical Practice in Music Education 43
WAYNE BOWMAN
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PART II
Making Sense of Our Tools
The New Media Era
6 The Shifting Locus of Musical Experience from
Performance to Recording to New Media: Some
Implications for Music Education 63
MATTHEW THIBEAULT
7 Inter/Trans/Multi/Cross/New Media(ting):
Navigating an Emerging Landscape of Digital Media
for Music Education 91
EVAN S. TOBIAS
8 Is It the Technology? Challenging Technological
Determinism in Music Education 122
ALEX S. RUTHMANN , EVAN S. TOBIAS, CLINT RANDLES,
AND MATTHEW D. THIBEAULT
Perspective
9 The Technology-Music Dance: Reflections on
Making Sense of Our Tools 139
DAVID BRIAN WILLIAMS
10 Understanding the Tools: Technology as a Springboard
for Reflective Musicking 155
FRANK HEUSER
PART III
Visualizing Expansion
Music for Life
11 Liminal or Lifelong: Leisure, Recreation, and the
Future of Music Education 167
ROGER MANTIE
Popular Music
12 Seeking “Success” in Popular Music 183
GARETH DYLAN SMITH
Contents ix
Early Childhood
13 “Pssst . . . Over Here!” Young Children Shaping the
Future of Music Education 201
ALISON M. REYNOLDS, KERRY B. RENZONI, PAMELA L. TUROWSKI,
AND HEATHER D. WATERS
Teacher Education
14 Identity and Transformation: (Re)Claiming
an Inner Musician 215
KAREN SALVADOR
PART IV
Guiding Researchers
Research Snapshot
15 Methodological Trends in Music Education Research 235
MICHAEL S. ZELENAK
Qualitative Approaches
16 Critical Ethnography as/for Praxis: A Pathway
for Music Education 253
MARISSA SILVERMAN
17 Application of Sound Studies to Qualitative Research
in Music Education 271
JOSEPH MICHAEL ABRAMO
Perspective
18 Commentary on R esearch Snapshot
and Qualitative Approaches 292
RICHARD COLWELL
Quantitative Approaches
19 Structural Equation Modeling and Multilevel Modeling
in Music Education: Advancing Quantitative Research
Data Analysis 299
NICHOLAS STEFANIC
